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[TheRan]

It all depends on how much they end up costing but potentially we end up living in a near utopia where no one has to do the shitty jobs anymore. Although it will mean everyone pivots to working the jobs that humans just can't replace, a lot of it being maintaining the bots, so it won't mean people won't have to work.

[princec]

Which is what they said about computers, washing machines, combine harvesters, spinning jennies, etc. but what actually happens is that a load of people lose their jobs and become poor and nobody wants to give them anything, so they have to find some different work to do, and a decreasingly small number of people who control robot production get increasingly disproportionately wealthy as they buy up all the assets they can with their money and rent them back to the newly impoverished for the rest of their miserable lives.

The system, as designed, always means that even as some device comes along to save labour, the amount of work simply increases and everybody scrambles over the top of each other to do the extra work or simply become unemployed. Maybe it'll be even worse in the case of androids, because once you've got general purpose androids, what can the poor possibly do for the rich? What do the owners of robots, and the makers of robots, even need the poor to exist for any more?

Cas

[Specter]

sounds like the poor better step up their game and figure out some skill to be worth while to society. 
Every time there is some tech advance, some sector gets put out of work, and they whine wail and scream oh woe is me.  cars, displaced the wagon industry, video tape displaced the reel to reel industry, cd's displaced the tape industry, then came SS electronics... then came the internet and streaming. on and on and on
skills, the trades, construction, plumbing, electrical, woodworking, framing, etc. none of that is going away anytime soon, learn a skill that will earn you a living, instead of something ignorant like medieval lesbians and their tools of the trade type degrees.

middle class probably is not going to afford the bots, at least not for a while, they still need people to mow lawns, rake leaves, do yardwork etc. a lot of those jobs won't go away.  mechanical skills won't go away, troubleshooting, won't go away, no bot will be able to look under the hood of your car and say, ok this is the problem, then go and fix it unsupervised.  my shitter clogs up, someone needs to come and fix it.  that shit's expensive, those people make money.  guess what, middle class shitters clog too, not just the rich people.  on that, there are so many different types of toilets, no bot is going to know how to snake each one, every bathroom is laid out different, every sewer system is different, degraded different,  no bot could possibly know every layout, plenty of use for humans.    Chefs, people love to eat real food, NO machine will ever replace a good chef with current tech, as so much of good food you need feel, sight, smell,..tribal knowledge to prepare it perfectly, even grilling.  no robot will be able to taste, sniff and say, hmm a pinch of this,and 5 more minutes.
even the low skilled, lower intellect folks will have plenty of job opportunities, just get rid that retarded entitlement mindset that you are worth 25 or 30 dollars an hour because you absolutely are NOT.  if your weed is too expensive and you can't afford it, learn better paying skills.
there is no free ride.

robots will be the end of humans because people will be lazy shits, why should i learn anything, gain any skills, ill have my robot do it. Talk about useless eaters, you think there are a lot now, just wait until the bots start replacing the low skilled jobs and they won't do anything else, won't learn something better, just expect someone else to feed them like a canary bird. it's gonna get interesting.

aaron

[MVetter]

sounds like the poor better step up their game and figure out some skill to be worth while to society. 

hooooooooooooooooly shit. Found satan, boys

[Specter]

ahh you finally figured out a way to reflect in a mirror?  what did you do, peel someone's skin and wear it?

[MVetter]

Just busy here confusing Porphyria with Lucifer

[Specter]

ill have Krampus pay you a visit then to help you get things sorted.

Lucifer Rides Lectric'    i see a meme in there.

Aaron